Adam Weishaupt Quotes

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion. Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.